I'm still looking for the note taking app that can replace Tomboy. Not because Tomboy is great (it isn't), but because it's actually a note taking app. Most apps seem to be this huge convoluted editors, with a UI resembling an IDE. Which I'm sure is pretty nice for creating a nice hierarchical structure, writing long documents and crosslinking them but, for me at least, note taking is about taking random short or ad…
Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
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Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#122Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have
Others have mentioned about Search, In case you choose to implement it then I'd suggest a special attention towards code search. I presume formatting code with markdown is a non-issue, So implementing first class code search capabilities would be real differentiator among other notes applications and could likely fill a need-gap.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#123For private notes & random images/files app I would suggest trying https://joplinapp.org But I use as private notes mainly, so can't say much on file storage side. Multiple sync target (e.g. Dropbox, Nextcloud, OneDrive etc.) with E2EE. But it's not polished so expect there might some strange limitations.
I'd like to try this but it seems that there are limited options to import from Onenote. As far as I can tell, you can either try converting to markdown with an older version of Evernote (IIRC with limitations such as text formatting being lost), or use one of a few users' hacky solutions involving Pandoc. Is there an easier/better way?
I started using it after Evernote with very few notes
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Noted! I'll see if this feature can be added.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/curren... : > [Teh ElasticSearch Core Ingest Attachment Processor Plugin]: The ingest attachment plugin lets Elasticsearch extract file attachments in common formats (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF) by using the Apache text extraction library Tika. > The source field must be a base64 encoded binary. If you do not want to incur the overhead of converting back and forth…
- Search results on a timeline indicating search match occurrence frequency; ability to "zoom in" or "drill down"
- "Find more like these" that prepopulates a search query form
- "Find more like these" that mutates the query pattern and displays the count for each original and mutated query along with the results; with optional optimization
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few suggestions (some overlap with other comments). If you really want it to be an Evernote competitor, it should have: Image/file upload Web clipper (singlefile is great) OCR (Tesseract has done what I need, not sure how that compares to Evernote) Basic task management Customizable dashboard Tagging and excellent search (these are Evernote's bread and butter) WYSIWYG editing Templates Integrations And it woul…
TiddlyWiki has hit most of these capabilities for many years now, and is nearly unique in wrapping up all the code and data in a single unit that can be run in any regular browser, from either local storage or a remote server or storage. (It does need a killer web clipper, though...) TiddlyWiki really is one of the cleverest apps I've ever run across, but I'm not much of a JS programmer, so it's got a bit of a learni…
I run a local CGI server and that allows me to make all kinds of customizations in the language I want (most languages support local CGI servers). The querying capabilities of TiddlyWiki make it a nice database.
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#128People keep saying it's missing this feature and missing that. People use note taking apps in many different ways. If an app has all the features, it wouldn't be a free open source one by a single developer. I would make it a commercial one and compete with apps like EverNote. Even EverNote has issues.
Re: Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)
#129Hi Friends, I'm the author of GitNoter. I'd love to answer any questions you have
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> IIRC GitHub, (BitBucket), and GitLab existed before this new (license-addendum?) Trademark policy Trademarks are like copyright licenses where if you haven't been given explicit permission, then you don't have any. (The difference is that you can lose your trademark if you don't actively police misuse, but that's beside the point.)
Trademark > Registration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Registration